Politifact.com: Stories mentioning Beto O'Rourkehttp://www.politifact.com/personalities/beto-orourke/Stories or blog posts about Beto O'Rourke from Politifact.comen-usThu, 12 Sep 2019 22:55:40 +0000Live fact-checking the Houston Democratic presidential debatehttp://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/sep/12/live-fact-checking-houston-democratic-presidential/PolitiFact is live fact-checking the Houston Democratic presidential debate. Follow along below. See Figure 1 on PolitiFact.com <a href="/truth-o-meter/article/2019/sep/12/live-fact-checking-houston-democratic-presidential/">>>More</a>Thu, 12 Sep 2019 22:55:40 +0000http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/sep/12/live-fact-checking-houston-democratic-presidential/What job could be next for the Democratic presidential candidates?http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/aug/20/what-could-be-next-democratic-presidential-candida/Running for president isn&rsquo;t easy. And it&rsquo;s especially tricky if you have to decide in the middle of the campaign whether it&rsquo;s better to leave the race to run for another office. That&rsquo;s the situation that faced former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, who quit the presidential field on Aug. 15 and is keeping his options open about a 2020 run for Senate, where he could challenge GOP Sen. Cory Gardner. An early exit also enabled U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell time to defend his California congressional seat in 2020. What about the other candidates?&nbsp; The most attention has focused on Montana ... <a href="/truth-o-meter/article/2019/aug/20/what-could-be-next-democratic-presidential-candida/">>>More</a>Tue, 20 Aug 2019 15:00:00 +0000http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/aug/20/what-could-be-next-democratic-presidential-candida/Fact-checking night one of the 2020 Democratic debates in Detroithttp://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/jul/31/fact-checking-night-one-2020-democratic-debates-de/Sen. Bernie Sanders contrasted himself with President Donald Trump at Tuesday&#39;s Democratic presidential debate, saying Trump lies while he tells the truth. We won&#39;t fact-check that claim, but there was much for us to scrutinize from the 10 candidates on stage at the Fox Theatre in Detroit. Here&#39;s our rundown of questionable statements. Follow our fact-checking of night two of the Democratic debates Beto O&rsquo;Rourke, former Texas congressman: &quot;The Centers for Disease Control (is) prevented from actually studying the issue (gun violence) in the first place.&quot; This is an outdated Democratic talking point.&nbsp;For two decades, spending bills included something called ... <a href="/truth-o-meter/article/2019/jul/31/fact-checking-night-one-2020-democratic-debates-de/">>>More</a>Wed, 31 Jul 2019 10:01:03 +0000http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/jul/31/fact-checking-night-one-2020-democratic-debates-de/Harris, Swalwell, Williamson: A quick look at the Californians on tonight’s debate stagehttp://www.politifact.com/california/article/2019/jun/27/harris-swalwell-williamson-quick-look-californians/The first night of the Democratic presidential debate is over. Ten candidates from around the country, from Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren to Texas politicians Beto O&rsquo;Rourke and Julian Castro to Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, shared the spotlight in Miami and PolitiFact National fact-checked their claims here.&nbsp; Now is the time for the second round, in which three Californians &mdash; Sen. Kamala Harris, Rep. Eric Swalwell, and self-help author Marianne Williamson &mdash; will make their case to be the party&rsquo;s nominee.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s anything but a second-tier group. The Californians will join seven others, including 2020 Democratic frontrunner and former Vice President ... <a href="/california/article/2019/jun/27/harris-swalwell-williamson-quick-look-californians/">>>More</a>Thu, 27 Jun 2019 13:30:49 +0000http://www.politifact.com/california/article/2019/jun/27/harris-swalwell-williamson-quick-look-californians/Fact-checking the Democratic debate in Miami, night 1http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/jun/27/fact-checking-democratic-debate-miami-night-1/This story was updated with additional coverage on June 27 at 8&nbsp;p.m. The Democrats who want to challenge Donald Trump for the presidency took the stage for the first debate of the presidential primary of the 2020 election cycle. Many of them argued that the U.S. economy isn&rsquo;t working for working people. The Democratic field is so large that only half the candidates appeared Wednesday; another debate with the rest of the field was scheduled for the next night.&nbsp;&nbsp; Here are some of the candidates&rsquo; comments, with fact-checking or additional context. John Delaney:&nbsp;&quot;If you go to every hospital in this ... <a href="/truth-o-meter/article/2019/jun/27/fact-checking-democratic-debate-miami-night-1/">>>More</a>Thu, 27 Jun 2019 02:56:35 +0000http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/jun/27/fact-checking-democratic-debate-miami-night-1/Who is Beto O&#39;Rourke? A bio of the Democratic presidential candidatehttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2019/jun/19/who-beto-orourke-bio-democratic-presidential-candi/Editor&#39;s note: This story is part of PolitiFact&rsquo;s ongoing coverage of the 2020 campaign; these reports will be updated as the campaign continues. For more candidate profiles and fact-checking, go to www.politifact.com/2020/ Beto O&rsquo;Rourke seeks the presidency after gaining national attention during his unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Republican Ted Cruz. O&rsquo;Rourke, a former Texas congressman, hopes to capitalize on the momentum of his Senate race to charge a new grassroots campaign and &quot;unite a very divided country.&quot; O&rsquo;Rourke, who&rsquo;s from the border city of El Paso, routinely refutes President Donald Trump linkage of immigrants to crime ... <a href="/texas/article/2019/jun/19/who-beto-orourke-bio-democratic-presidential-candi/">>>More</a>Wed, 19 Jun 2019 17:32:01 +0000http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2019/jun/19/who-beto-orourke-bio-democratic-presidential-candi/Donald Trump vs. Beto O’Rourke on immigration messaginghttp://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/feb/12/donald-trump-vs-beto-orourke-immigration-messaging/President Donald Trump and former congressman Beto O&rsquo;Rourke described the impact of immigrants and border walls in such starkly different terms that it sounded as if they were on different worlds. Yet they were rallying their supporters less than a mile away from each other. From El Paso, Texas, on the U.S.-Mexico border, Trump spoke about the perils and pitfalls of immigration. Separately, O&rsquo;Rourke, who used to represent El Paso as a Democrat in Congress, offered a more positive outlook. Since losing a 2018 bid for the U.S. Senate, O&rsquo;Rourke has been seen as a potential Trump challenger in the ... <a href="/truth-o-meter/article/2019/feb/12/donald-trump-vs-beto-orourke-immigration-messaging/">>>More</a>Tue, 12 Feb 2019 22:49:53 +0000http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/feb/12/donald-trump-vs-beto-orourke-immigration-messaging/What Ted Cruz, Beto O&#39;Rourke got right and wrong in Senate debatehttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2018/sep/24/what-ted-cruz-beto-orourke-got-right-and-wrong-sen/Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Democratic challenger Beto O&#39;Rourke lofted many factual claims in debate. We spotted a few that have been fact-checked before. Read all about that here. And what did you hear that might merit a fact-check? <a href="/texas/article/2018/sep/24/what-ted-cruz-beto-orourke-got-right-and-wrong-sen/">>>More</a>Mon, 24 Sep 2018 16:30:51 +0000http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2018/sep/24/what-ted-cruz-beto-orourke-got-right-and-wrong-sen/Why Rafael Cruz goes by Ted and Robert O’Rourke by Betohttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2018/aug/17/why-rafael-cruz-goes-ted-and-robert-orourke-beto/Reader tweets reminded&nbsp;us that Texas voters choose in November between U.S. Senate nominees who don&rsquo;t go by their given first names. Republican Sen. Ted Cruz seeks a second term against Democrat Beto O&rsquo;Rourke, who represents El Paso in the U.S. House. That is, Rafael Edward Cruz faces Robert Francis O&rsquo;Rourke. One reader&nbsp;asked on Twitter&nbsp;after 10 p.m. Aug. 15: &quot;Why does Beto not use his real name?&quot; Two minutes later came this&nbsp;counter-question: &quot;Why doesn&rsquo;t Rafael?&quot; Each candidate has offered his own accounting for the first name he goes by. Read our full recap here. <a href="/texas/article/2018/aug/17/why-rafael-cruz-goes-ted-and-robert-orourke-beto/">>>More</a>Fri, 17 Aug 2018 19:46:56 +0000http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2018/aug/17/why-rafael-cruz-goes-ted-and-robert-orourke-beto/UPDATED: Ted Cruz ad hearkens to Beto O&#39;Rourke&#39;s 2009 call for debate on legalizing narcoticshttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2018/aug/03/ted-cruz-ad-hearkens-beto-orourkes-2009-call-debat/Ted Cruz says in a TV ad that just debuted that he sponsored legislation allowing drug testing of applicants for federal &quot;jobless benefits.&quot; President Donald Trump in 2017 signed into law a Cruz-sponsored measure allowing states to expand the pool of applicants for unemployment benefits who can be drug tested, the Dallas Morning News reported. That change in law nullified a Labor Department rule that went into effect in 2016 limiting drug tests to applicants who had a job that does regular drug screenings, its story said. Cruz&#39;s ad also presents a throwback&nbsp;charge that has&nbsp;factual footing in Democratic Senate nominee ... <a href="/texas/article/2018/aug/03/ted-cruz-ad-hearkens-beto-orourkes-2009-call-debat/">>>More</a>Fri, 03 Aug 2018 15:08:19 +0000http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2018/aug/03/ted-cruz-ad-hearkens-beto-orourkes-2009-call-debat/